PGCE Secondary History

University of Reading

Train as a history teacher on our versatile, immersive PGCE Secondary History course at the Institute of Education.You will be trained to teach children from 11 years old until their GCSE exams, and beyond this to A-level.How you’ll learnInspiring children to learn about history can be a very rewarding career. This course combines theory, research and practical classroom teaching to develop your skills as a teacher.You’ll attend workshops, seminars and individual sessions with experienced academic mentors. You will also gain significant practical classroom experience with children of different ages.Throughout your course, you will learn how to:teach pupils about causation, change and continuity, similarity and difference, and difficult conceptsdevelop pupils’ evidential thinking and chronological understandingplan lessons, from the creation of individual activities to lessons and sequences of lessons designed to support pupils’ learning of historymake big decisions about the curriculum for example, which period of history to teach and when to teach it.In order to achieve this, you will be supported by tutors who work closely with mentors in schools to ensure that high professional standards are maintained.Qualified Teacher StatusThis Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Secondary History course leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), qualifying you to teach the 11-18 age group in secondary schools in England and Wales.

Institute of Education